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Unicon is a unification of several extended dialects of the derived from::Icon language, featuring Icon plus classes, POSIX system facilities, GDBM and ODBC-based (SQL) database access, packages, 3D graphics and more, all provided at a very high semantic level.

In addition to Icon, Unicon draws from:

  • IDOL an object-oriented Icon preprocessor
  • MTIcon a multi-threading Icon. (Most recently, in version 12, improved multi-threading capabilities were added.)

While Unicon is mostly a super-set of Icon there are some differences and incompatibilities.

Icon itself is an evolution of the line of languages COMIT, SNOBOL, SNOBOL4, and SL5.

Introduction to Icon and Unicon

If you want to learn more about these languages please see An introduction to Icon and Unicon for Rosetta Code.

The following are related:

Home Pages

  • [http://unicon.org/ Unicon home page on Sourceforge]
  • [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ The Icon home page at the University of Arizona]

Books

= General =

  • [http://unicon.org/book/ub.pdf Book: Programming with Unicon describing the language, the Icon Programming Library and Unicon extensions]
  • [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ftp/doc/lb1up.pdf Book: The Icon Programming Language, 3rd Edition]
  • [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ftp/doc/gb1up.pdf Book: Graphics Programming in Icon]
  • [http://www.tools-of-computing.com/tc/CS/iconprog.pdf Book: Icon Programming Language Handbook]
  • [http://www2.cs.uidaho.edu/~jeffery/icon/humanists/humanist.pdf Book: Icon Programming for Humanists]

= Internals =

  • [http://unicon.sourceforge.net/book/ib.pdf The Implementation of Icon and Unicon a Compendium]] ** [http://unicon.sourceforge.net/reports.html Unicon Technical Reports and works in progress]
  • [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ftp/doc/ib1up.pdf The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language] ** [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/docs/ipd112.htm IPD112 Supplement to Version 8] ** [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/docs/ipd239.htm IPD239 Supplement to Version 9] ** [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/docs/docs.htm Icon Technical Reports (TR) and Project Documents (IDP)]

Articles and Newsletters

  • [http://unicon.org/generator/ Archived issues of the Generator from 2004-2005 discussing Unicon programming]
  • [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/inl/inl.htm Archived issues of the Icon Newsletter from 1979-2000 discussing Icon programming]
  • [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/analyst/ia.htm Archived issues of the Icon Analysts from 1990-2001 discussing advanced Icon programming]

Programming References

  • [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/library/ipl.htm The Icon Programming Library and index]
  • [https://tapestry.tucson.az.us/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome Unicon Discussion Web/TWiki containing various programming examples, problems, and challenges]

Other

  • Wikipedia: Unicon
  • Wikipedia: Icon
  • [http://www.mitchellsoftwareengineering.com/icon/icon.sli.pdf Presentation: Fundamentals of Icon Programming]
  • [http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201101/page17.html PC Linux OS Magazine, Volume 48, Computer Languages From A to Z: Unicon]

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